CONGRATULATIONS^^ WHO'S WHO MISS MADISON!" ' AT MADISON V -MADISON COLLEGE- Vol. XXV Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Friday, December 3, 1948 No. 10 Students Elect Edwards Poetry Chosen 13 Students To Represent Miss Madison Of 1949 For Anthology Two students, Joyce Cramer and Madison In Who's Who Mary Edwards, of Matoaca, Virginia, was elected Mfcs Madison Mary Clare Dougherty, have had liter- Thirteen seniors have been chosen to represent Madison Col- of 1949 by the student body on November 22, when they voted for"one ary work chosen, by the National lege1 in the National Who's Who in American Universities and Col- of the ten candidates for the award. Mary will be presented with the Poetry Association for publication. leges. These girls are Ida Hart Chappell, Elizabeth Broome, Betty silver cup in assembly by Sarah Ferland, president of the Art club which Joyce's poem, "Portrait", and Mary Lou Henshaw, Myra Fensterwald, Marianna Howard, Betty Weller, sponsored the contest. Clare's poem, "Be Wise", were select- Jennie Snowden, Marie Garber, Gena Gander, Mary Rudasill, Lois ed by the judges from thousands of Mary first became known as an out- Stine, Mary Edwards, and Geraldine Neathery. poems submitted. The poems will be Club. member of Alpha Sigma Alpha soror- standing studejit on campus in her published in the Annual Anthology of The above candidates were chosen ity, Kappa Delta Pi, and German freshman year when she played the College Poetry. by the seven senior class officers,, Miss Club. Last year she served as business The Anthology is a compilation of lead in Stratford Dramatic club's first Vandever, Mr. Shorts, Dr. Armen- manager of the Breeze, and previously the finest poetry written by the college play of the year. Since then she has trout, Dr. Gifford, Miss Hoffman, Dr. she was a member of Sigma Phi men and women of America, repre- been voted the most dramatic in her Latimer, and Mr. Eagle. Qualities of Lambda and the Mercury Club. senting every state in the country. class every year she has been on leadership and demonstration of out- Vice-President Of SGA Joyce is a Junior and comes from campus. Last year sb/ was president standing ability were the basis of Nearby Staunton is the home of Worcester, Massachusetts. She is of Stratford. choices. As stated by the committee, Retty Weller, the vice-president of majoring in French and is a member Her talents are not limited to the emphasis this year was placed on the Student Government. Betty is a of Scribblers, the honor organization dramatics* however, for this year she scholarship as they felt that if a girl member of Alpha Sigma Alpha which undertakes to encourage crea- has served as president of the YWCA, devoted all her time to extra-curri- sorority and is registrar, a member of tive writing and to foster literary in- of which she has been a cabinet mem- cular activities and let her work slide Kappa Delta Pi, IRC, 'and German terest and achievements. ber since entering Madison. With all or the very opposite, if she expended Club. She has been a member of the Mary Clare, also a Junior and a her outside activities, she still made all her energies on study only, neither Honor Council, the president of her transfer student, comes from Pulaski, grades high enough to be voted into of these types was well-rounded freshman dorm (Ashby), and Presi- Virginia, and is majoring in biology. Kappa Delta Pi, the campus honor enough to qualify for Who's Who. dent of the Junior Class. society for education majors. She was Chappell, SGA President Mary Edwards of Petersburg, Vir- also ; recently selected to represent President of the Student Govern- ginia, is president of the Y?W.C.A, Madison in Who's Who Among Stu- Famed Dancer ment Association, Ida Hart Chappell on which she was a member for three dents in American Universities and is from Sedley, Virginia. During her years, and program chairman for one. Colleges. MARY EDWARDS Conducts Class four years on campus she has been a She was a Student Government rep- Miss Madison has also been a repre- member of German Club, Pi Kappa resentative, the president of Stratford On Wednesday, Charles Weidman, sentative to the Student Government Sigma sorority, the Honor Council, Dramatic Club, has participated in noted modern dance interpreter, con- Association, Wesley Foundation treas- Standards committee, an usher, Kappa many student dramatic productions, is ducted a class in modern dance urer, and is a member of Theta Sigma She Says tDelta Pi, and Sigma Phi Lambda. a meniber of Theta Sigma Upsilon, Upsilon sorority. techniques at 4:00 p.m. for the stu- Betty Broome is a nativfe of Dan- was Wesley Foundation treasurer, and Mbry Edwards cried for the second dents interested in improving their ville (or at least nearby) and at pres- is a member of Kappa Delta Pi. time in her life last Tuesday night skill in this art. ent holds the office of editor of the The president of-the Senior Class, Seniors Elect when she was told she had been elect- Mr. Weidman has long been known Schoolma'am. In former years she Myra Fensterwald, is from Norfolk. in the theater for his unusual and in- Delegates ed Miss Madison for this year. The was vice-president of Sigma Phi She is a member of Pi Kappa Sigma teresting interpretations of the dance. Lambda, 4-H alumnae representative, sorority and is editor, Kappa Delta Pi, first time she cried was back on April Jane Coates was selected by the Using such themes as "Daddy Was a was a member of Honor Council and and Cotillion Club. She has been sec- senior class as their representative to 25, 1926. Why did she then? Most Fireman," Fables for Our Times," "A the Breeze. She is a member of Ger- retary of the Spanish Club, a member people do, for it was on that date that the Student Government Council at a House Divided," and "On My man club, Sigma Sigma Sigma soroHVf Porpoise Club, and Sigma Phi she arrived on earth, hardly expecting Mother's Side," the artist uses a ity, Scribblers and is treasurer of Pan- Lambda. meeting held last night. Jane, who to have such an honor bestowed on straightforward and direct style in hellenic Council. Gena Gander.of Luray, Virginia, is was formerly president of the Student her in later years. Mary was born in presenting his theme in dance. After Marie Garber of Winchester, Vir- business manager of the Schoolma'am body at Shenandoah College, replaces a little town on the Rappahanock having won a Guggenheim Fellowship ginia, who came to Madison last year and a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma River, Irvington, the"; first* and only Alice Hunter who resigned recently. some time ago, he used it to interpret as a transfer student from Bob Jones sorority. She has been secretary of the At the same meeting Louise Al- daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. James James Thurber's "Fables for Our College rn Memphis, Tenn., is vice- Junior class, treasurer of the business U. Edwards. brittian, Jackie Burton, and Jean Times," a collection of stories about president of the Y.W.C.A., is a mem- club, a member of Sigma Phi Lambda, Wanting the student body to know impressionable animals. In this series, Slaughter were elected to serve on the ber of the glee club, a member of and is a member of Pi Omega Pi. just how happy she was, Mary said in he imitates owls, unicorns, shrikes and Alpha Sigma Tau sorority, and chap- Betty Lou Henshaw of Charles Student-Faculty Committee for this all sincerity, "I actually don't think chipmunks. He does not rely on the lain, and Is a member of Kappa Delta Town, West Virginia, the chairman year. I've ever been as happy as when I dance alone for expression but em- Pi. of the Honor Council is also a mem- heard that you had voted me Miss ploys the effective addition of a Howard Of Richmond ber of German Club, Alpha Sigma Mfadison. I think it is a wonderful narrator who reads the fable as the From Richmond, Virginia comes Alpha sorority, and IRC. In other Annual Activities honor and I hope I'll always live up to dancers enact the words of the story. Marianna Howard, who is a represen- years she was a member of the Breeze Progress Well the expectations of you students." To In "A House Divided," his theme is tative of the Senior class to Student staff and copy editor, was vice-presi- Mary we say, "We know you will." serious. The problems of the recon- Government, a member of the varsity dent of the Francis Sale Club, secre- Work on the 1949 Schoolma'am is Your Miss Madison contends that struction and the great words of hockey squad, as she has been for tary of the Honor Council, and vice- well under way. Most of the pictures she has done few exciting things in Abraham Lincoln are portrayed in three years, a member of Sigma Sigma president of the Junior class. dance. -In "And Daddy Was a Fire- for this year's book have been taken, her life. Probably enjoyed more than Sigma sorority, and the Curie Science Mary Rudasill, of Woodville, Vir- anything else, was her codrsc she took man," he relates a bit of family Club. In other years here she was ginia, is a member of the Honor and the balloting for the feature sec- at Union Theological Seminary this history, receiving f\i* inspiration from Freshman Class vice-president, Presi- Council, the Y.W.C.A.